So i was away for around four days, and i didn't have my gaming rig with me, so i had to do with my very old i5 laptop, and i played JPOG. It was a very good change to go and check back the spiritual predecessor of JWE, i enjoyed the tutorials very much, as well the missions ( i will talk about them later ), and i was just like ' Thank God for Site B '. After playing a little bit more, i realized it should be ' Thank God for JWE '. I know i might get a lot of hate from saying this, but that game was perfect at its time, now it seems very flawed, do not misunderstand me i still like it, it was my favourite as a kid. And when i say not as good as JWE, I am not talking about the beatific graphical properties, no , i am talking about a lot of mechanics that make me very grateful for having Frontier make JWE, for instance the popultion/social limits give the dinosaur species more authenticity, i also adore the way we can build fences/paths in a straight or curved line, still this doesn't mean JWE is perfect, but it is on the way.
I did however find a lot of other mechanics that were in JPOG and aren't present in JWE, i am not going to talk about the already clear things ( like the much talked about ' create your own island ' or more attractions from the old game ). I mainly will refer to some mechanics based around the stars of the game, the dinosaurs. For instance, the combat system came a long way, but sometimes it is quite silly, you can't have a Ceratosaurus square up with a Tyrannosaurus-rex, i believe medium Carnivores shouldn't be able to fight Large ones in JWE ( in the exception of Indo/Spino raptor hybrids, because they are ... well : hybrids, and crazy ). JPOG already had that established, so that medium carnivores immediatly escape in the presence of a larger one. Another point around the combat system, the animations are very repetitive, the current kill animation should only be used by the Spinosaurus i believe ( as it resembles the one seen in JP3 ), others should get their own, specially the large carnivores, remember when the Iguanodon came out with that unique kill animation ? and everyone loved it, it was because no other dinosaur had it, i think frontier should release an enrichement DLC with a lot more of animations dedicated to each creature.
Another point which i believe would give this game a greater value, is having missions, not the story missions like the ones during the campaign, i am talking about missions like the ones that were in JPOG, like take a series of pictures worth 200 points ( we can use a money amount instead of points ), or Dinosaurs went on rampage, sedate or retire them in 3 minutes before an inspection team comes. During these mission we will be bound to either a jeep or a helicopter , and we will be on pre-created different Islands by Frontier , it would definitely enrich the contents of this game, and we can have around 10 missions with many levels of difficulty ( like difficulty levels on challenge mode ).
There are a lot more mechanics that i can talk about, but i will leave that for another time. So what did you guys think, is it feasible ?
I did however find a lot of other mechanics that were in JPOG and aren't present in JWE, i am not going to talk about the already clear things ( like the much talked about ' create your own island ' or more attractions from the old game ). I mainly will refer to some mechanics based around the stars of the game, the dinosaurs. For instance, the combat system came a long way, but sometimes it is quite silly, you can't have a Ceratosaurus square up with a Tyrannosaurus-rex, i believe medium Carnivores shouldn't be able to fight Large ones in JWE ( in the exception of Indo/Spino raptor hybrids, because they are ... well : hybrids, and crazy ). JPOG already had that established, so that medium carnivores immediatly escape in the presence of a larger one. Another point around the combat system, the animations are very repetitive, the current kill animation should only be used by the Spinosaurus i believe ( as it resembles the one seen in JP3 ), others should get their own, specially the large carnivores, remember when the Iguanodon came out with that unique kill animation ? and everyone loved it, it was because no other dinosaur had it, i think frontier should release an enrichement DLC with a lot more of animations dedicated to each creature.
Another point which i believe would give this game a greater value, is having missions, not the story missions like the ones during the campaign, i am talking about missions like the ones that were in JPOG, like take a series of pictures worth 200 points ( we can use a money amount instead of points ), or Dinosaurs went on rampage, sedate or retire them in 3 minutes before an inspection team comes. During these mission we will be bound to either a jeep or a helicopter , and we will be on pre-created different Islands by Frontier , it would definitely enrich the contents of this game, and we can have around 10 missions with many levels of difficulty ( like difficulty levels on challenge mode ).
There are a lot more mechanics that i can talk about, but i will leave that for another time. So what did you guys think, is it feasible ?
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